Why I Will Vote for Romney-Ryan in November

http://www.freerepublic.com/~mkjessup/ | 17 August 2012 | Mark Jessup (aka mkjessup)

[mkjessup]

I've been on FR since 2003. Hard to believe next March will be my 10th year here, assuming I don't get zotted for one reason or another, lol

To that handful of detractors who would LIKE to think this is my opus, guess again suckers - I would never give you the satisfaction of it. Now that we have that out of the way, why this vanity?

First of all, I'm posting this in News/Activism not because this is sourced from a network, newspaper, etc., but because I've noticed that nobody else worries about posting their vanities in the 'Personal/Blogger' section, so WTH should I?

Now for the purpose of my writing today: after a great deal of soul searching and I might add, a goodly amount of prayer, I have come to the conclusion that my vote in November must and will be cast for the GOP ticket of Romney and Ryan. I did not reach this decision easily. Even a casual review of my past posts will reveal that I have reviled, ridiculed, lambasted and sneered at Mitt Romney with the best of them. I've posted my own home brewed graphics to the laughs of my fellow FReepers, I have been steadfast in saying 'no damn way' would I ever even consider voting for that liberal Republican from Massachuetts, no way would I reward the GOP elites with my vote after they've pissed on conservatives from sea to shining sea. The Party of Reagan is no more, let no one deceive you. We as conservatives are more at home in the Tea Party, and yet what was for a short while the natural home for conservatives, i.e. the Republican Party is an unfamiliar neighborhood, a place that sometimes looks like the place we remember, but upon a second glance, we realize that everything is different now, everything has changed.

Now there are good and Godly conservatives who in a perfect world, WOULD be viable candidates for the Presidency, there is no need to list them all here, we all have our favorites and we all know who we would prefer to be voting for. Our own Tom Hoefling would be a better President than the miserable Kenyan sonuvabitch that is stinking up the White House right now, hell *I* would be a better President than that despicable usurper and liar, and so would most of you, my fellow FReepers.

Now I can recite (and in the past, I have) endless reasons as to why I could not and would not vote for Mitt Romney. In many ways it galls me no end to have reached the conclusion that my own Constitutional duty is to vote for a guy that I had sworn never to vote for. It really REALLY starches my shorts however I have had to question my own perspectives, my own views and ask myself the question, "can I honestly justify another four years of what one of my heroes Senator Joe McCarthy would certainly have labeled a 'Communist regime'?

I cannot do that. I do not like the presumptive GOP nominee, I do not agree with many of his past positions. However I cannot deny that one and only one of the two major party candidates for President is going to be sworn in next January. It will either be that treasonous little bastard 0bama, or it will be Mitt Romney. Anyone, and I mean ANYBODY, who thinks that Tom Hoefling, Virgil Goode, or any other non-'Rat/non-GOP candidate is going to be sworn in as our 45th President next year, I will personally bet $100,000 against that happening at any odds they wish, because that is how likely it is that NEITHER 0bama or Romney will end up being elected in November. I won't lose one dime on that sort of wager.

So how do I justify voting for the GOP and Romney this time around? Well, some things I do NOT believe about Romney is that he hates America, that he hates our capitalist system, that he wants to weaken our national defense, sell out our allies and reward our enemies. I don't agree with nor support his religious faith. But his belief in the tenets of Mormonism is quite frankly between him and God. Now while it is easy to find all sorts of things about the Mormon faith that fly in the face of basic traditional Christianity, if the choice is between a closet-crypto Muslim in the White House, and a church going, charitable, prayerful Mormon who doesn't cheat on his wife, doesn't smoke dope, doesn't even drink (is that true? I'm not sure but I think Mitt is a tee-totaler), I'm pulling the lever for that Mormon guy.

Picture all of America on a gigantic airliner, streaking through the sky, when word comes back from the cockpit that Captain 0bama has never even flown a plane of this size or any size, he's been reading the instruction manual from a hidden teleprompter on top of the instrument panel, we're headed for a bad patch of CAT (Clear Air Turbulence) and the illustrious fake pilot is going to try and fake his way through that turbulence, and it is a foregone conclusion that "we're all gonna die!" - but up in first class (of course, lol) Mitt Romney stands up and informs everyone that he IS a licensed pilot, and that he can get our airliner away from the turbulence, down to a safer altitude, get us back on the proper heading, and land safely at our destination. He offers to take the controls. SOME passengers question him "have you ever flown a plane like this?" and he answers honestly "no, not quite this size, but I AM a pilot, I HAVE flown in difficult circumstances before, and I've got more skills than that fake pilot up in the cockpit that we are about to crash with". Who the Hell is going to argue against that logic? No other pilots on board. No parachutes. And indeed, a fool and an oaf at the controls of the cockpit. WTF do we have to lose?

And another analogy that I've already posted recently, which is that conservatives need to do what the Western allies did in World War II, they did not particularly like Joe Stalin, in fact they knew him to be a rotten communist sonvuabitch but the "enemy of our enemy was our friend" (or at least a convenient ally) and the GREATER enemy was in Berlin, in the form of Hitler and we needed Stalin and his troops to attack the Nazis from the East, and that is why we sent them tons of lend-lease assistance to help them accomplish that. And what kind of fools would have urged a different course in that war? A course of telling Stalin and Soviet Russia that they were "on their own" and they would receive no assistance from us? Can you imagine for just a moment if Nazi Germany had prevailed on the Eurasian continent, the Swastika flying all the way from London to Vladivostok?

Now having painted that sort of grim picture of alternate history, I think we can agree that for all of Mitt Romney's faults, he is not a Joe Stalin, he may be a liberal but he is no Communist.

Can we say the same for 0bama and his crew of America-hating scumbags?

Now a powerful factor in my decision to support the GOP ticket was in fact, the selection of Paul Ryan as Romney's VP running mate. Now Paul Ryan is nobody's fool. If there was anybody I wanted to have the ear of 'President Romney' it would be Vice President Paul Ryan. Everyone keeps saying "if Romney would just move to the right", well I believe Paul Ryan is the best person to accomplish that task. They seem to have a good chemistry and that bodes well for the success of their ticket. The polls show Romney-Ryan up, and 0bama and the 'Rats freaking and shrieking as their numbers decline.

Now I have myself made the argument in the past that the only difference between Romney and 0bama is that 0bama is driving us to the edge of the cliff at 100 mph, and Romney is going to reduce our speed to a thrifty 55 mph. And even IF that were to be proven true, I'm not in any hurry to reach the edge of that cliff.

Now in closing, I ask the following question: how many of us would clench our teeth and pull the lever for Gerald Ford, or Bob Dole, or any other establishment RINO if it meant the end of 0bama? To get that filthy Communist out of the White House, I would (to paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill) 'consider writing in the name of the devil himself', and so for that reason my friends and FRiends, I will support and vote for the GOP ticket of Romney & Ryan in November, not because everything about it excites and pleases me, but because I cannot be a party to another 4 years of the Kenyan traitor staining and besmirching the Office once held by the greatest President of all history, Ronald Wilson Reagan. I submit that Reagan would vote for Romney. We can be assured that Sarah Palin is going to vote for Romney. So will Newt Gingrich. So will Rick Santorum. So IF I am making a mistake by casting my vote for the GOP this year, I will be in good company.

Thanks for your kind consideration.

Mark Jessup

[norwaypinesavage]

"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.- Winston Churchill"

Don Rumsfeld actually said it much more succinctly: "You go to war with the army you've got."

[Sola Veritas]

“To me, I am a freedom loving American. Freedom I KNOW I will lose under Obama, and not only for me, but for everyone reading this.”

Well, I KNOW you will still lose it under Romney, and the homosexual agenda will continue, and bloody abortions. With all due respect, you are really naive to think otherwise.

[tumblindice]

Try to keep up, SV.
http://2012.republican-candidates.org/Romney/Issues.php
Romney on Abortion

Pro-Life

“Romney previously supported a woman’s right to decide, but he is now adamantly opposed to abortions, unless it involves cases of rape, incest or if the mother’s life is in mortal danger.

During the 1994 Massachusetts senatorial debate against the incumbent Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Romney explained that he does not belief in imposing his personal beliefs unto others, and that, as a result of the death of a relative from an illegal abortion issue, his family has supported Roe V. Wade since 1970, and the right of a woman to choose. In 2007, Gov. Romney subsequently explained in an interview with USA TODAY that he no longer feels the same about the issue, and cites his earlier position as wrong.”

I don’t care who you are: that’s a hell of a lot better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, i.e. Barack Hussein Obama.

Thoughtful, well-written article, mkjessup.
However, I still want Mittens stressing over my vote.
Particularly over this issue, and our southwestern border.
All the way up to November 5th.

[jonno]

Why are yours not HUGE assumptions? It’s just as likely that Hillary! will run in 2016 - regardless...

Taking a principled stand against Romney is fine, but don’t fool yourself into thinking that your prognostication is somehow superior to mine - or anyone else on this board.

You come across as prideful and arrogant - not an attractive combo...

[Sola Veritas]

“During the 1994 Massachusetts senatorial debate against the incumbent Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Romney explained that he does not belief in imposing his personal beliefs unto others, and that, as a result of the death of a relative from an illegal abortion issue, his family has supported Roe V. Wade since 1970, and the right of a woman to choose. In 2007, Gov. Romney subsequently explained in an interview with USA TODAY that he no longer feels the same about the issue, and cites his earlier position as wrong.’”

And you actually believed him??? I have some swamp land for sale....

[Kevmo]

No matter who wins the election, conservatism loses. Just because someone else is afraid, it’s not enough to get me to pull the lever for a lying, babykilling statist.

What is the plan for getting a conservative into POTUS in 2016 if Romney wins? Unseating a sitting republican president?

I lived in Santa Barbara a few years back. Our conservative congressman did a pretty good job. Along came this republican dude with lots of money, named Huffington. he spent more on this congressional primary race than any other in history. He unseated the congressman. When the time came to vote, I could not pull the lever for this POS and wrote in the former congressman. Straight Republican ticket. Years later, Huffington admitted to being gay, his wife divorced him and started Huffington Post, and do-nothing congressman Huffington basically did more damage to conservatism than any democrat ever could. The seat has been firmly in the hands of a librul ever since. Writing in the conservative republican over that POS was the honorable thing to do.

[OrangeHoof]

To me, voting for Romney is easier than voting for McCain. At least Romney didn’t spend eight years on CNN and other tv venues trashing the Republican president and stalling Bush’s agenda in the Senate.

Palin or not, I couldn’t support such a traitor.

Romney concerns me about several things but at least I have no doubt which party he supports.

[PAR]

Romney is completely unreliable on abortion and just about everything else as well. But he is not a radical abortionist like Obama is. Check out Obama’s record on the infant born alive legislation. Before this legislation was passed, aborted babies could be born alive and then just left to die on their own. Obama actively supported continuing this practice, even after the U.S. Senate voted 98-0 to ban it. Then Obama brazenly lied about his position on national TV, displaying indignation when called on it. Not even people who support Roe V. Wade support this abhorrent practice, but Obama did.

The video Jim posted is incredibly damning, but in my view Obama is beyond radical and poses and existential threat.

[Kevmo]

Thanks for the ping.

Romney will be Romney. He’s a librul. No matter who wins the election, we’ll have a lying, babykilling gungrabbing statist as president.

No matter who wins, conservatism loses.

[Colonel_Flagg]

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Winston Churchill

Old Winnie didn't think much of giving in.

[sitetest]

Good post.

[Kevmo]

Thanks for the ping.

Seems like there’s a lot of CINOs trying to separate conservatives from their conservative principles on this thread. Such a thing is not conservative. They should instead be going out converting 0bots to mittbots rather than sowing discord among conservatives.

[jonno]

...CINOs trying to separate conservatives from their conservative principles...

Ya know Kev, I could make the argument that the world is going to hell in a hand-basket and therefore this ENTIRE discussion is moot.

So exactly which conservative principle is it that tells me I shouldn't throw my little bucket of water on the fire of progressivism?

Oh, I see you're taking your bucket and going home...

[exit82]

Well, I KNOW you will still lose it under Romney, and the homosexual agenda will continue, and bloody abortions. With all due respect, you are really naive to think otherwise.

We have had almost four years of Obama on a national level--we know what he is capable of doing.

I have not seen anything on Romney that approaches the level of hate against America,capitalism and freedom that Obama has exhibited.

And quite frankly, abortions and the homosexual agenda ARE going to continue until America wakes up.

But that will not change no matter who is elected on November 6th: Obama,Romney, Goode, or Hoefling or others.

First you have to excise the cancer--the current President--before ANY cure is possible.

And why do you think that is a "naive" position? My position is based on reality, at least.

[Kevmo]

Everyone has their own core principles. Mine are that a candidate needs to be pro-life, pro-family, pro-borders, pro-gun and a couple of others.

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I’m a big tent republican.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1821435/posts?page=18455
Here’s an analogy to work with. Take a small box and fill it with some rocks. Then add some rice, filling it to the top. Now take all the same stuff, but in a different order. Put in the rice first, then add the rocks. What you’ll find is that if you put in the big stuff first, the small stuff will fit around it. But if you put in the small stuff first, the big stuff won’t have room. The republican tent is the box. The Big issues are the socon issues, to be put in first. The little issues are things that can be accommodated around the bigger stuff. A candidate who tries to focus on the smaller issues first and leave out the bigger issues has no way of getting all of us into the tent. He splits the party. The candidate who gets the big stuff right and as much of the little stuff that will fit, he can fit more into the tent. We’re often amazed at how much rice can keep fitting in. Folks such as Rudy or Romney flunk some of the big issues, and on some of the little issues it looks to me like anyone else’s rice would do just as well. All that remains for us to agree on is which are the bedrock principles and which are not. Why would there be so much invective aimed at rudy or romney from the right? Because there are some bedrock principles that he is leaving out. Bad move. I see rudybot and romneybot postings all the time saying that they would vote for Hunter or Palin, and I see socon postings that say they would not vote for rudy or romney. That’s a BIG indicator of a few bedrock principles that are being left outside the tent in order to let in some rice.

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[Gator113]

“....apologize for any less-than-charitable words we may have exchanged in the past.”

Certainly accepted and you have my apology as well.

Just so that you will know, FRiend, I make a point not to remember the details of occasional disagreements, except for obvious trolls and libs.

I can be a bit gnawing, so my bride of over 40 years tells me. :>)

I am hardheaded, on the salty side, kinda stuck in my ways and I don’t have a PC bone in my body. BUT, in real life I am a nice guy. ;>)

I hope you have a great evening.

Again, that was a very good breakdown and I know it wasn’t easy.

Dan

[DFG]

Excellent post FRiend. I agree with you 100%.

[A Strict Constructionist]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Machiavelli

A good tactical move, any other is futile and foolish at this point. Elect conservatives to Congress for the long battle.

Georges Pompidou: A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

Pray that Romney is a statesman...

[Gilbo_3]

No one disagrees that Obama is horrific...very horrific. However, if one compromises on bedrock principles (opposing abortion, opposing the Homosexual agenda) in order to get rid of him. Then they are using gasoline to put out a fire. It will not work, just make things worse.

sorry mark, but i cannot ignore principle this time...doing so only invites it again next time, as the campaign of *FEAR* has been ramped up in every election which Ive been priveledged to participate...

bambam sucks, and he WILL go for broke in term 2, and ive made peace with that... I will trust Gods plan and promises...not another political campaign of empty lies, rhetoric and moral failures...

let the beast called bambam take off the mask and go for *it*, maybe we can right the ship while ive still got the energy to fight...

[backwoods-engineer]

Good vanity article, Mark. I'm going to vote in self-defense against Obama, and mark "Romney/Ryan" on my ballot, too.

Got yer back.